Italian alpine skier Giuliano Razzoli brought...

Croatia"s Ivica Kostelic won the silver after the race at the Whistler Creekside and Sweden"s Andre Myhrer brought his country the bronze medal.

With only one day remaining of the Olympics in Canada, Italy won 1 gold 1 silver and 3 bronze medals, comparing with 5 golds at the 2006 Winter Olympics in their home country.

MOSCOW, February 28 (RIA Novosti)

ST. PETERSBURG, June 21 (RIA Novosti) -...

ST. PETERSBURG, June 21 (RIA Novosti) - Rossiya Airlines, a St. Petersburg-based air carrier, plans to buy four A320 Airbus planes in 2008, a senior company official said Thursday. Gennady Boldyrev, first deputy director general at Rossiya Airlines, said an initial protocol had already been signed and a contract was being drawn up. The airline is expected to obtain the first A320 jet in November 2008. Boldyrev said his company would buy Tu-204-300 planes for private carriage, using federal budget funds. Rossiya also expects to receive three long-haul Boeing-767 aircraft later this year. The Airbus A320 is a medium-haul airliner with a passenger capacity of up to 120 and an average flight range of about 3,000 miles. Rossiya Airlines was established in 2006 through a merger between Pulkovo Aviation Company in St. Petersburg and Moscow"s Russia State Transport Company. Its pool has 52 passenger aircraft, including five Boeing 737 and two Airbus A-319 planes. At this week"s air show at Le Bourget outside Paris, Russia"s flagship airline Aeroflot signed a contract with Airbus to buy 22 A350 passenger planes and Russia"s S7 Airlines (formerly Sibir) said it would purchase 25 A320 planes.

Two F-5 Tiger fighter jets crashed into...

Two F-5 Tiger fighter jets crashed into a mountain in eastern South Korea during a routine training flight on Tuesday, the Yonhap news agency reported.

MOSCOW, August 7 (RIA Novosti) - The results...

MOSCOW, August 7 (RIA Novosti) - The results of the Russian North Pole mission last week should be central to the country's case for ownership of a vast section of the Arctic, President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday.

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